How to format your references using the Obesity Facts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obesity Facts. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Orrit M. Single molecules. Molecular entanglements. Science. 2002 Oct;298(5592):369–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landskron K, Ozin GA. Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas. Science. 2004 Nov;306(5701):1529–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volkov I, Banavar JR, Maritan A. Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science. 2006 Aug;313(5789):918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Minozzo FC, Baroni BM, Correa JA, Vaz MA, Rassier DE. Force produced after stretch in sarcomeres and half-sarcomeres isolated from skeletal muscles. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2320.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Dixon CS. Protestants. Oxford, UK: wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Barahona P, Bry F, Franconi E, Henze N, Sattler U, editors. Reasoning Web: Second International Summer School 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2006, Tutorial Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Naff CF. Approach to the Singularity: The Road to Ruin, or the Path to Salvation? In: Pinn AB, editor. Humanism and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 75–96.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Obesity Facts.

Blog post

Andrew D. Look Up! Your Guide To Some Of The Best Meteor Showers For 2017 [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/look-up-your-guide-to-some-of-the-best-meteor-showers-for-2017/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Comments on Report Entitled “The Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Berkland M. Strain analysis of a detachment shear zone. 2015

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Otis J. Keeping a Sunny Spirit in the Face of Hardship. New York Times. 2017 Jan;A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Obesity Facts
Abbreviation	Obes. Facts
ISSN (print)	1662-4025
ISSN (online)	1662-4033
Scope	Physiology (medical) Health(social science)